No criminal case as of yet opened in relation to the threats against Oksana ChelyshevaPRESS-RELEASE #1216 FROM MARCH 22, 2005
March 22, 2005. Representatives from the Nizhni Novgorod province prosecutor's office today informed the IC RCFS that they have as of yet not opened a criminal case in relation to the threats that were issued against Oksana Chelysheva on March 14, 2005. The complaint, which was brought to the prosecutor on March 15 by Chelysheva and editor in chief Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, was directed for review to the jurisdiction of the prosecutor in the Leninskiy district in Nizhni Novgorod yesterday.
As reported earlier, on March 14, 2005, around 8 p.m., unknown individuals distributed flyers in the neighborhood of apartment buildings 12, 14, and 16 on Iyulskikh Dney street in Nizhni Novgorod. The flyers contained slander, insults, and direct threats directed to Oksana Anatol'evna Chelysheva, editor of the Information Center of the inter-regional non-governmental organization “Russian-Chechen Friendship Society” (see our press releases #1208 from March 15, 2005 and #1209 from march 15, 2005). The flyers were distributed in the mail boxes in the aforementioned apartment buildings, and were also posted by the entrances to the buildings. Chelysheva lives in one of these buildings. On march 15 Chelysheva and Dmitrievskiy brought a criminal complaint to the Nizhni Novgorod province prosecutor. According to the statement, the individuals guilty of distributing the flyers are at a minimum guilty of violating the law with respect to part 3, article 129 (slander associated with accusations of grave criminal acts), article 137 (violation of right to privacy), and article 213 (hooliganism) in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
According to paragraph 1, article 140 in the criminal procedure code of the Russian Federation, “the examiner of any investigative agency, investigator, and prosecutor, are required to accept and review statements about any completed crime or criminal intent and… issue a decision within three days of the submittal of the statement”. According to paragraph 3 in the same article, “the prosecutor … has the right to … extend this period to 10 days providing the 1st paragraph is observed”.
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